With a machine gun mounted in the head of the aircraft, thus called Gun-vehicle-1 (枪车1号; Qiang-Che-1).Note that like most Chinese words, western inaccurate translations are widespread, such as "Gun-bus" or "Gun-car".

Its primary mission was reconnaissance.

This successful development made China the only fourth nation in the world with military aircraft manufacturing capabilities, right after the United States, Britain and France.